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This belief justified, or rationalized, the de-regulation of financial markets in the name of the so called “efficient-market hypothesis.”
Our
hypothesis
is that voices arise from different combinations of these three factors--reduced brain integration, social isolation, and high levels of emotionality.
Fama, the most important proponent of the “efficient markets hypothesis,” denies that bubbles exist.
Indeed, they first acquired their colorful names in the early years of Ronald Reagan’s presidency: the “magic asterisk,” the “rosy scenario,” the Laffer hypothesis, and the “starve the beast” scenario.
Right on cue, it is time for the famous Laffer
hypothesis
– the proposition, identified with the economist Arthur Laffer and “supply-side economics,” that reductions in tax rates are like magic beans: they so stimulate economic growth that total tax revenue (the tax rate times income) goes up rather than down.
After all, two of his main economic advisers, Glenn Hubbard and Greg Mankiw, have both authored textbooks in which they argue that the Laffer
hypothesis
is incorrect as a description of US tax rates.
Mankiw’s book, in its first edition, even called proponents of the
hypothesis
“charlatans.”
Each Republican presidential candidate since Reagan has had good economic advisers who disavow the Laffer
hypothesis.
Evaluating the second
hypothesis
is more complicated.
You might also want to rethink Eugene Fama’s efficient markets hypothesis, according to which prices of financial assets always reflect all available information about economic fundamentals.
Almost three years ago, former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers revived Alvin Hansen’s “secular stagnation” hypothesis, emphasizing demand-side constraints.
The rationale for this convergence
hypothesis
is that poor countries can import capital and technologies from wealthy countries and reap the advantages of such investments.
This
hypothesis
is supported by Giannetti and Simonov, who argue that differences in the prestige of entrepreneurs across municipalities may account for differences in levels of entrepreneurship.
The most persuasive
hypothesis
is that – like former FBI Director James Comey and Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The New York Times – they ignored polling that did not underestimate the risk of a Trump victory.
One
hypothesis
is that foreign central banks that were accumulating trillions of dollars finally figured out that they were likely to be holding these reserves for years to come, and could afford to put at least some of the money into medium-term US treasury notes yielding (initially) far higher returns than T-bills.
Judging by its recent policy reversal, the US Federal Reserve acts as if it were a late convert to the imperfect knowledge
hypothesis.
This exonerating
hypothesis
does not hold water.
These findings weigh heavily against the
hypothesis
that “austerity” has brought Greece to its present plight.
After all, many people here have been teaching the “efficient markets hypothesis” that financial markets around the world have become so competitive that it is impossible to make more than a normal return from investing.
This
hypothesis
can be tested experimentally.
For the worst
hypothesis
is not that EMU will run into some turbulence -- that is more likely than not -- nor that some irresponsible government may weaken EMU’s low-inflation policy, but that the whole system could run into serious economic difficulties, or even fly apart.
If the Kasparov-Thiel-Gordon
hypothesis
is right, the outlook is even darker – and the need for reform is far more urgent.
If the technology
hypothesis
were true, we would expect to see an increase in productivity-enhancing capital expenditures during the current period relative to prior recoveries.
A second possible answer is what I call the “capacity glut”
hypothesis.
If the “capacity glut”
hypothesis
bears out for Latin America as a whole, the region can breathe easy, because the higher unemployment and lower levels of investment accompanying the current recovery would be finite trends.
Of course, if the
hypothesis
does not hold, then we may have to revisit the possibility that technology-induced structural change is leading Latin America, if not the world, into uncharted territory, and perhaps even to a “new normal” of jobless growth.
But it is too soon to rule out a simpler and more plausible
hypothesis.
In the absence of such evidence, an unproven
hypothesis
is insufficient reason to cause people to die or to increase their suffering.
Uganda seems to be an example of a country that receives a significant amount of aid, and at the same time, contrary to the
hypothesis
that aids creates dependence, is making rapid economic progress.
That poor countries are poor because they lack resources should be a testable
hypothesis.
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